signed first edition
1972 · London
by JAMES, P.D.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket printed in green, red, and black; 216pp. Spine a hint cocked, jacket panels and spine toned, extremities slightly rubbed; Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. The first of two novels to feature private detective Cordelia Gray (the other being The Skull Beneath the Skin, (1982)). (Inventory #: 24295)